* What is the "official" name of the -*- line?
@ 2012-03-30 6:43 Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-30 9:57 ` Carsten Mattner
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From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2012-03-30 6:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
Hi,
I've noticed that Emacs now outputs a message "Malformed mode-line"
when it encounters bad syntax in the first line of the file. [1]
This may be a little confusing because the line at the bottom of a
window is called mode line, too.
Anyway, this makes me wonder if there's an "official" name for that
line? In documentation and source code I've found all of the
following:
`-*-' line
first line
mode-line
prop line
Ulrich
[1] <http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/revision/105821>
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* Re: What is the "official" name of the -*- line?
2012-03-30 6:43 What is the "official" name of the -*- line? Ulrich Mueller
@ 2012-03-30 9:57 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-03-30 12:54 ` Tom Willemsen
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From: Carsten Mattner @ 2012-03-30 9:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ulrich Mueller; +Cc: emacs-devel
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that Emacs now outputs a message "Malformed mode-line"
> when it encounters bad syntax in the first line of the file. [1]
> This may be a little confusing because the line at the bottom of a
> window is called mode line, too.
>
> Anyway, this makes me wonder if there's an "official" name for that
> line? In documentation and source code I've found all of the
> following:
>
> `-*-' line
> first line
> mode-line
> prop line
>
> Ulrich
>
> [1] <http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/revision/105821>
Documentation calls the beginning-of-file or end-of-file lines file
local variables.
That should leave mode-line for the status-bar/info-bar row.
I didn't invent it, so there may be more to this.
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* Re: What is the "official" name of the -*- line?
2012-03-30 9:57 ` Carsten Mattner
@ 2012-03-30 12:54 ` Tom Willemsen
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From: Tom Willemsen @ 2012-03-30 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Carsten Mattner; +Cc: Ulrich Mueller, emacs-devel
Hey,
On Fri 30 Mar 2012 11:57:42 AM CEST, Carsten Mattner wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've noticed that Emacs now outputs a message "Malformed mode-line"
> > when it encounters bad syntax in the first line of the file. [1]
> > This may be a little confusing because the line at the bottom of a
> > window is called mode line, too.
> >
> > Anyway, this makes me wonder if there's an "official" name for that
> > line? In documentation and source code I've found all of the
> > following:
> >
> > `-*-' line
> > first line
> > mode-line
> > prop line
> >
> > Ulrich
> >
> > [1] <http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/revision/105821>
>
> Documentation calls the beginning-of-file or end-of-file lines file
> local variables.
> That should leave mode-line for the status-bar/info-bar row.
> I didn't invent it, so there may be more to this.
The add and delete functions call it file-local-variable-prop-line:
add-file-local-variable-prop-line
delete-file-local-variable-prop-line
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